Caleb Adams pets his Aunt Joni’s dog Bluebell at his grandmother’s home in Charleston on Thursday. Joni Adams, who passed away at her home during the flood that ravaged parts of West Virginia last week, adopted Bluebell from the Kanawha-Charleston Humane Association in 2014.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Bluebell often got a homemade meal.
Chicken, rice and veggies, especially those long green beans. They’d cook for hours in a Crock-Pot while her owner was at work.
When it was time to eat, the dark-haired mutt of a dog would get the works. Her mom would pour the homemade meal over some dry food. She’d set the bowls down far enough apart so that Bluebell and her siblings, Katie and Old Blue, wouldn’t try to pounce on each other’s food.
She’d look after them, making sure her dogs, which were more like her kids, had enough to eat.
After the floodwaters receded around Bluebell’s home in Big Chimney last weekend, after she’d been running for at least a day, she found some food. A neighbor sat it out for her. It wasn’t homemade.
But that place doesn’t exist anymore…
